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take a bow (cause you're the winner) by metall0kinetic (mercpool)
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV)
07 Apr 2026
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The first time Shane sees the Voyagers winner’s room, the tiny cell-like cavity cut into the wall of one of the endless tunnels that makes up the layout of his new workplace, his stomach turns. It's a harrowing enough thought, the dubious measure of consent implied by things like sportsmanship and caving to tradition, but fuck.
He tells himself he's just excited by the nature of the room, the figurative coming of age that a winner's room represents.
It has nothing to do with the guilty, illicit idea of the only other person in the league who can hope to match him. And what they might get up to in here, undisturbed, permitted to indulge.
Ilya wins a match, and to the victor go the spoils.
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When he presses the button on the doorbell, he hears the digitally-produced ding-dong echo from inside. There is a tiny box halfway up the adjacent wall that immediately beeps and emits Shane’s voice.
“Hey, you can just leave it on the step, thanks.”
Ilya presses his nose into the digital doorbell, which he knows to also contain a camera, and says, “Shane.”
A pause.
“What the fuck.”
A brief cacophony of noise that Ilya can hear even from outside the house. The multiple successive thumps of something falling, Shane swearing loudly and the sound of what can only be a hockey game being paused on the television.
He opens the door to reveal that he is nap-rumpled, wearing two pairs of socks and carrying a child in his arms. The only really surprising part is that the socks don’t match, though the child is interesting.Ilya takes an impromptu trip to Montreal. There are unforeseen consequences.
Bookmarked by metall0kinetic (mercpool)
23 Jul 2026
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gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous i need to EAT this author (affectionately). so fucking incredible
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He crowds Shane into the hood of the car, hands up under his shirt and jacket again. October is getting cold; nights are getting colder. The places where Ilya is touching him are the only parts of Shane’s body that are warm right now. Maybe that’s why he wraps his arms around Ilya’s neck and clings to him, though he doesn’t necessarily surprise himself with it. They don’t even kiss for a moment. Ilya busies himself breathing into the crook of Shane’s neck, trying to regain control. Shane opens his eyes and gazes over Ilya’s shoulder at the dark field and realizes that an utterly foreign feeling has risen up in him. It’s Ilya’s broad shoulders and beautiful hair between Shane and the world and he feels—small. Protected.
“Oh my God,” Shane whispers, completely ashamed of the feeling and hungry for it. It curls warm in his stomach. His toes arch inside his shoes. Something about being so close to this man, something about Ilya putting himself between Shane and—the world. Whatever lurks in the deep night. It’s a feeling like a ghost, something that Shane isn’t allowed to look directly at except for moments like these. Quiet and dark.Shane, Ilya, Vermont. Meeting in the middle.
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Bookmarked by metall0kinetic (mercpool)
22 Jul 2026
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so so amazing . so many feelings captured here, and written in such a beautiful terrible aching way .
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"Oh my God, what?" Shane demands, nervous now.
Ilya swears in Russian again. "Is, um. The condom."
Fuck. "What about the condom?"
"On porvalysa," he says, like he can't fucking bring himself to say it in a language that Shane can understand. Then he finally looks at Shane, mouth covered like he's a cowering dog afraid to show Shane his teeth. "It broke."Ilya Rozanov and Shane Hollander are twenty, on top of the world, and a little irresponsible about it. This is the crash.
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- Part 1 of Tin Roof Rusted
Bookmarked by metall0kinetic (mercpool)
22 Jul 2026
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LOVE THISSS so funny so . UGH perfect
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Shane breathes in deep, a contented little sigh, and then pauses for another long time. Just slightly tensed, like he’s preparing himself for something, but Ilya doesn’t really have the chance to worry before he says, “I had…a good time tonight.”
“Mm, was good night,” Ilya murmurs. Kisses hair, kisses eyebrow. “Nice dinner, nice weather.”
“Yeah, it was nice,” Shane murmurs. He sighs, clears his throat. “Thank you for such a nice first date.”
Ilya mouths first date to himself, mind running to figure out what that could mean in this context.
Then Shane shifts and says, “I wasn’t sure what to expect when you asked me out.”
Ah.Shane decides to play a game. Ilya is exactly where he wants to be.
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m2m by pookiewookie111
Fandoms: Heated Rivalry (TV), Game Changers | Heated Rivalry - All Media Types
19 Jul 2026
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Ilya has two problems.
The first is that his best friend is freshly single and needs to get laid. The second is that Ilya is having some...weird feelings about it.
These are completely platonic and heterosexual concerns for his friend, of course.
(or a college au featuring shane and ilya as best friends, and shane as ilya's bisexual awakening)
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Bookmarked by metall0kinetic (mercpool)
22 Jul 2026
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this was fabulous i Love a college au and everything was handled incredibly